Words or Phrases From Your Part of America

[Bassbob]

Thanks. Learned something new. Never heard that before.

Kinda used as "Sorry" or "Oops" too. Or to indicate you didn't mean to do whatever you just did as well.

It's a great word. Not as great as ennui, which is the best word, but still pretty damn killer ( see what I did there ?)

I also regularly call women "Chicks", though that may be an age thing. Book, as in I gotta book, or bail ( Leave) or if you're moving fast you're "Bookin".

 

[Bassbob]

"Rig" = vehicle

Also used to describe my bass and amp. Also my tractor ( that is my mini excavator) .

 

[Funwithfuel]

Can’t believe no one added “all y’all” yet !

Around me, it's you's as in," you's ready ta go?"

 

[HansGruber]

Uff da.

 

[10mmLife]

"Its wicked cold in Boston"

Not so much a local phrase as wicked is used commonly in ton of phrases.

 

[wolfpack076]

Tom foolery. What were you kids doing ? Up to your tom foolery yet again .

 

[wolfpack076]

Hey-na or No ?

 

[Chas]

Reefer... when the tractor gets stuck yous reefer outa the slop

 

[Bassbob]

Uff da.

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[HansGruber]

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Uff da (“Oof-dah”).

Covers the gamut from “heck, I spilled soup on my shirt” to “Mother F’r! I just ran over my sister with the tractor!”

 

[Bassbob]

Uff da (“Oof-dah”).

Covers the gamut from “heck, I spilled soup on my shirt” to “Mother F’r! I just ran over my sister with the tractor!”

Ahh. I see.

 

[mikep]

Being from NJ:
**** you, ***hole, ****head, dumb***, go **** yourself. And those are just the ones used while driving.

 

[Bassbob]

Being from NJ:
**** you, ***hole, ****head, dumb***, go **** yourself. And those are just the ones used while driving.

Think those are universal. I heard all of those today. Just imagine if I'd have left the house.

 

[HansGruber]

This just might be my work, but…

J***s H T****y F*****g C****t…

 

[Jfal]

Bubbler - water fountain

Or just listen to anything Charlie Berens says...he's got us down pretty good

 

[mikep]

Think those are universal. I heard all of those today. Just imagine if I'd have left the house.

Universal yes, but here in the garden state all of those are coupled with some sort of hand gesture. Could be the finger, double finger, the one where you drag your fingers up your neck and off your chin, the single open hand raised to eye level (double hand used for added anger).

 

[Cedric]

Ah for eye, as in Ma Ah!

 

[Onewolf426]

Lay down to the "do so" locker.

 

[SaltyMonkey]

This is most eastern part of the state, or “Down East”. Central and mountain folks have a different dialect.
“Dingbatter” = a yankee
“slickcam” = when water looks like glass
Water= is pronounced wardur.
“Pizer” = front porch

 

[Grayfox]

In the South, if a sweet old lady smiles and says 'Well bless your heart!" It ain't a complement.